River report 19 feb
The river is now dropping from last weeks flood and a lot of fresh big fish is coming in from the sea.
There is still a few rods that can be booked this season:
26 march – 2 april – 2 rods
2 – 9 april – 4 rods
Contact: travel@looptackle.se
Sweden is at the moment not the nicest place to be, when it comes to the weather. So we were “happy” to see that our team members are hard at work… Fantastic pictures that make us long for vacation and entirely different weather. All pictures taken by Stephan Dombaj, who also nailed three out of three Tarpon. Cheers mate!
Combi Trip 2
12-19 march – 4 rods 26 march – 2 april – 2 rods 2-9 april - 4 rods
for booking contact:
The Las Buitreras camp manager Claudio Martin has been testing the waters. Two fish around 20 pounds, and two over 15 landed in one glorious afternoon. From the amazing Jurassic Lake we got a report that Dale Thorson landed 100 wild Rainbows in one day!
- The beginning of the season at Buitreras is less then a month away and we are looking forward to welcoming our first group. The river is getting in perfect shape! River is roughly above +30 cm with light tea coloration and water temperature over 7°C.
It’s a great time at Las Buitreras and a lot of work for all the ones involved into making this place more than just a fishing destination. Machines working on the roads, trucks coming up a down bringing supplies, girls redecorating the lodge, and fishing guides doing what they do best after, of course, guiding, sleeping, barbeques, sleeping again (and the list goes on and on…), anyway, they’re out there, just fishing…
We’ve been finding all along the different beats a mix of fresh sea-run browns and some of those lead-colored ones with 2-3 weeks from earlier runs that have reached their destination: Gallegos Rivers mid section, along Estancia Las Buitreras. Beats 3 and 4 have been the best ones over the last 7 days and pools like El Henrik, Raquel and Limit Pools up to Flats and Island Stream have been producing the most. The highest tides of the year and one of the biggest runs is yet to come… come join us for the trip of a lifetime!
More than 3000 nautical miles of coral reef edge and shallow water flats, a long way out there the remotest areas of this spectacular reef system are awaiting YOU! Located hundred miles from Male intl. Airport this fishing-spot is as remote as it can get in a world of 1194 islands. The lack of fishing pressure makes these reefs home to massive numbers of fish. To keep it like this we limit ourselves to visit each area only a few days per year.
Incredible clear water, reefs, channels, Drop-offs together with endless pristine sand flats offer the ultimate sight-casting to GT´s & the awesome Bluefin Trevally and a lot of other species.
Trevally – the ultimate fighters on light tackle & fly gear are our traget no.1! They come in sizes to fit any angler`s personal preferences. Smaller ones for the flyrod and bigger ones for heavy spinning gear. Sometimes vice versa….
Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobilis) Pound for pond, the strongest fish that swims. Most GT`s landed on fly are 4-10 kilograms. This is the thoughest and most challenging fly fishng in the world. Even top quality gear may not be up to it. Hookups of far bigger fish are the daily routine – long line relases, rod breakage, busted leaders and backing too.
Bluefin Trevally (caranx melampygus) Pure beauty and incredible speed.
Bluefins up to 20 lbs. chase lures and flies as fast as lightning.
Plus a few more to keep you busy : Blue Trevally, Red Bass, Brown marbled Grouper, Coral Trout, Barracuda and many more
What’s your passion? Dropping a small Clouser in front of a spooky Bluefin Trevally with your 7wt. Fly rod? Or how about tossing huge sailfish-streamer to monster-size GT’s, which try to take all your backing? Sight fishing on the flats with a light spinning rod? … here you can do it all. We will take you fishing in the middle of the Indian Ocean based on the outstanding comfort of our mothership. Sleep, dine, fish and relax on our 66ft. ship. All 6 cabins and the dining room are airconditioned. We carry support Dinghys with outboard engines for transfers and shallow water fishing during the trip. On our standard fishing trips accommodation is single occupancy in individually two-bed room cabins with private bathroom.
Atoll-X Maldives-Safari, Jan 21 – 31, 2011. 10 days of fishing. Price EUR 2990,-
All prices include: All ground transfers in Male, accommodation in two-bed cabins, all meals and fishing.
It does not include International airfare to Male, fly-out air charter from the ship back to Male, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, or guide and staff gratuities.
For more information and booking: Austrian Outdoor Sports
I am a fisherman that spend a lot of time fishing around the world. I have around 200 fishing days a year. I must tell you about my latest fly fishing trip to Cayo Santa Maria in Cuba.
The fishing there is fabulous, I fished for tarpons. I knew that before my trip, but what I didn’t know was that I would have the best day in my fishing life.
This day, Thursday the 30 of September 2010, we started to fish near a bridge. There was not so many tarpons there, so we moved to another area. The guide placed the boat on a good spot. We saw some fish 200 m from the boat rolling, and the excitement was building up.
Suddenly the tarpons came in the reach of a cast. It stroked immediately a huge tarpon on my fly, 20 m from the boat. The hooked fish was a giant, more than 120 Lbs and it jumped up from the water. After a struggle of 30 min, the fish came loose. My hat of for a fish like that.
The cast after I hooked another one, approx. 100 Lbs. The fight was on… It jumped several of times, took a lot of line. But I landed a beautiful fish, in perfect condition after 45 min.
Me and my guide celebrate the fish with a cool beer. The fishing started again, we saw that the tarpons were rolling in a circle around the boat. I have never seen anything like it, and every 10 min there was a good chance to cast. I hooked over 30 magnificent tarpons that day. They were fighting, jumping and running like crazy. When the day was over, I couldn’t really believe what I just experienced.
There is nothing like this on earth.
Peter Cernold
Professional Fisherman
Sweden
We just got this txt from local manager Gabriel in Patagonia:
“Fish are in! Big run in Gallegos, expedition tomorrow to take lots of pictures. In Jurassic crazy fishing, Dale got 100 fish yesterday…”
We will be back with more soon, Claudio promised to fish a couple of days in Buitreras beat and to send pictures, so please keep eyes open
PS Still rods avaibale from mid march in both Las Buitreras and Jurassic
Contact us asap: travel@looptackle.se
Maybe it´s a relief for you to hear that I got to do some work here in the dirty south. The photographers from sports illustrated know exactly what I mean when I say: It´s a hard job but someone…you know the rest. Working the weekends and the nights can be tough… especially in this case. Claudio, Las Buitreras Camp Manager and head guide, told me that there´s a new cut bank-pool just around the bend of a major holding pool (Loop Hole) Still unnamed since no one slammed a Chromer out of it, either because it possibly no holding spot or because Loop Hole is just around the bend so they never really tried. New pool, unnamed and without fish so far. Jesus! Do I have to go on?
(Strippin´off)
I love Chromers. Fat-ass, strong, silverish migratory salmonides. But I really adore Gallegos Browntrout’s! Every single scale of them. I simply can´t get enough of them and they can´t get enought of giant hoppers: Miss Knobby X for the win! Of course I had to carry a 5weight Loop Yellow Line II (rigged up with an OptiStream WF5F on a CLWC) with me – just in case that something is really stupid enough to rise in a radius of a mile when I am around with a deadly pattern tied and approved in New Zealand.
On the way downstream to the section I got a couple of fish rising for this pattern so that it was almost dark when I arrived the unnamed pool. For some strange reason I exactly knew what was going to happen… I changed the leader for a 14ft with 0,22mm tippet… While I was opening my flybox a fish showed up close to the cutbank. Chromers ahead, head&tailing just a few meters away from my position. My welcome present was a Hotcone Spey-Bugger with Rubberl egs. Almost dark and wind picked up rapidly but anyway I managed to hit the spot. Long drift with a floating line to get the the fly down and dirty.
Full contact swing. Forget everything around, the only thing that counts now is something that is really hard to explain. It´s that feeling that takes over when you feel the current in the line, when you know that your fly swings just into the right spot, when you know that everything you are aiming for is waiting for something to pass by just under that specific bubble line… It´s a good feeling! You know that it ain´t no trout, it´s the silver flash, the leaper or simply one of the meanest motherfuckers of the collective of all freshwater fish.
Focusing on every on every movement, I started to retrieve my fly. Slow and even. A splash on the surface that simultaneously leads to a violent pull in my line. Stripstrike! Connected! The semitransparent reel gets into serious troubles. Left-handed version hits me on the wrong turn. But right now I don´t give a damn f*ck about it. Jump and run, jump and run… silver bullet is heading downstream. Although I am using a 5 weight I can feel that this is a big fish. The current is too strong to land it here so I move a few steps downstream. Headshakes and heavy pumps hit the butt section of my rod – hell yeah, now we are talking. After a couple of minutes it´s almost done. I am moving backwards, trying to beach that bull. Got it…
84cm length – 52cm girth (according to the calculator: 7,95kg) – taken on a tiny yellow trout rod, a dry line and a streamer. A few quick selfportraits and some fucked up night shots with a gorillapod and mama is back on its way to the spawning grounds. Mission accomplished! Some of you may think that I have missed the chance to set myself a monument by calling the pool El Steph or something like that. I have to disagree! We named it “COJONES”… and I guess you know what that means!
Some shots
(Bridge-Pool)
(Hernan: Trinas Bugger for the win)
(Gridle Bug Chromer)
(Claudio and the guys from Mountain Media)
(Richard Pt.I)
(Blast a cast)
(Wild horses)
(Prepare for the darkness)
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